Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candy, arrested Louis Gitlan for owning a gambling device. "All luck." charged Plunger Newman. Asked the Court: "As a matter of fact ... as you continued to play you got better and better, did you not?" "My scores got better," Newman replied. The Court ruled bagatelle a game of skill, set Candyman Gitlan free...
...respects the crowd got its money's worth. Before the first set was over the crowd saw that Vines, although inexperienced on indoor courts, had improved after his collapse last year. But so had the amazing Tilden who attributes his middle-age agil ity largely to the skill of osteopaths. After dropping the first game, Tilden took the next four. In the hottest fight of the evening, Vines ran the set to 4-all. then to 6-all before Tilden could stop him. From that point on Tilden hammered away at his opponent's weak point-his backhand...
...heroine knows it too, but she has the old hourgeois respectability on her mind, and keeps pretty stiff-backed. Young "Dynamite," the aggressor, tries all manner of persuasions, from the argument that "you haven't lived till you've lived" to the simpler muscular method. And despite his inordinate skill, it takes just two acts (out of two) for the lady to make up her mind. Your cousin from out West would call it "pretty raw," but it really is just a fine, clean portrayal of young passion, more freely translated than usual into the English tongue. On the side...
...increase its sales (18%) but when he footed up the bill for that year Chrysler Corp. had a loss of $11,254,000. Yet the hard-driving operating man who had denied himself none of the plush upholstery of the boom showed that he had lost none of his skill when it came to Depression...
...were unnecessary, for excited spectators hardly dared to breathe. The players, who had forged through the three weeks' tournament to top a list of ten were Erwin Rudolph of Cleveland and Felix Delasandro (Andrew Ponzi) of Philadelphia. Rudolph is medium-sized round-faced, stolid. He developed his cue skill between working in a steel mill and playing a violin in a cinema house, held the world's championship title in 1927 and 1930. Ponzi is an Italian whose greying black hair belies his 30 years. High-strung' always ready to take chances on the table, Ponzi...